At least since 1941, when Lionel Trilling published his essay “Freud and Literature,” critics have sought to explicate the unique relation between psychoanalysis and 19th-century Romanticism. Though Romanticism's origins predate the rise of psychoanalysis, the two fields have much in common and stand in a curiously symbiotic relation. Whether we consider Wordsworth's high Romantic claim for the mind as “the haunt, and the main region of [his] song,” or Arnold's later observations on “the dialogue of the mind with itself,” there is